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Confessions of a Pugilist: What Mike Tyson Learned from His Mother (and Alexander the Great)

Confessions of a Pugilist: What Mike Tyson Learned from His Mother (and Alexander the Great)

Mark Kriegel on Tyson’s Unstable Childhood, Lorna Mae, and the Fighter’s Historic Obsession

By Mark Kriegel | June 4, 2025

Novelist’s Nonfiction: Writing Across the Gaps in the Record

Novelist’s Nonfiction: Writing Across the Gaps in the Record

Aidan Ryan on Applying His Background in Fiction to the Challenges of Biography

By Aidan Ryan | June 4, 2025

Chronicle of a Hard-Won Defeat: Steve Prefontaine's Olympic Debut

Chronicle of a Hard-Won Defeat: Steve Prefontaine's Olympic Debut

Brendan O’Meara on the Star Runner's Performance at the 1972 Summer Games

By Brendan O’Meara | June 2, 2025

The revolutionary Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o has died.

The revolutionary Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o has died.

By Brittany Allen | May 29, 2025

Bringing the War Home: How Tim O'Brien Approached the Art of Moral Consequence

Bringing the War Home: How Tim O'Brien Approached the Art of Moral Consequence

Alex Vernon on the Emergence of One of America's Early Literary Voices of the Vietnam War

By Alex Vernon | May 27, 2025

The Secret Link Between Raymond Chandler and P.G. Wodehouse

The Secret Link Between Raymond Chandler and P.G. Wodehouse

Arvind Ethan David on the Surprising Connection Between Two Legendary Authors

By Arvind Ethan David | May 23, 2025

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“Please Keep Caring.” What John McPhee Taught Generations of Writers and Journalists

“Please Keep Caring.” What John McPhee Taught Generations of Writers and Journalists

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Drafting <em>Mrs. Dalloway</em>: How Virginia Woolf Started Her Masterpiece

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By Mark Hussey | May 14, 2025

Why the World’s First Celebrity Sex Therapist Had to Flee the Nazis

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Daniel Brook on Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld a Queer Pioneer of the Study of Human Sexuality

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The Schomburg Library is turning 100 this year—and throwing an <em>epic</em> rager.

The Schomburg Library is turning 100 this year—and throwing an epic rager.

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Here are the 2025 Pulitzer Prize winners.

Here are the 2025 Pulitzer Prize winners.

By Brittany Allen | May 5, 2025

How Charles Dickens’s Troubled Childhood Influenced His Literary Output

How Charles Dickens’s Troubled Childhood Influenced His Literary Output

Peter Conrad Explores the English Novelist’s Cyclical Vision of Life and Art

By Peter Conrad | May 5, 2025

From MLMs to Nuclear War: <br>10 Great Nonfiction Books to Read in May

From MLMs to Nuclear War:
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